Mess in Iraq

Every day when I watch the news reports about Iraq, I want to throw up. We have made such an unholy mess in that country - the unemployment rate is estimated at 50%, at least 20% of the country lives below the poverty line, utility coverage is still inconsistent. In the fall, there was a mass exodus by the middle class; I recently read that even members elected to the government's Council of Representatives live outside the country because of safety concerns.

And now there is talk of an American troop surge and it's just beyond my comprehension. Four years we've occupied Iraq and this is what we've wrought. How can any thinking person believe that what's needed now is more killing? That the solution to the mess we've made is to kill more people? Unbelievable.